Movement and Place requires project teams to conceptualise, plan and design at multiple scales. The mult-scale planning and design method improves on the conventional top-down approach when investigations and decision occur sequentially in successive project stages from the large to the the small scale. Planning and designing iteratively at multiple scales during each stage avoids locking in early decisions based only on large scale maps without understanding the local implications.
By planning and designing at multiple scales, transport infrastructure:
- Has a progressive development towards well-designed, context-specific assets starting in the planning phase with a clear line of sight to potential design solutions
- Can be delivered with more certainty to project scoping, budgets, programs, engagement and approvals
- Is an efficient investment in not only providing mobility or services but also supports the Future Transport Strategy outcome 'Successful places for communities' of making positive built contributions to centres, precincts or neighbourhoods throughout New South Wales
- Encourages multi-disciplinary problem solving and encourages addressing both place and movement aspects
The approach is universal for any road, street or infrastructure project and suggests various design techniques and deliverables. For example, practitioners can inform network or district scale planning by conceptual design at a local scale or typology methods to understand an indicative end-state.